things I really, really did not need to know about

[rm]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/travel/escapes/27Reenact.html

I think it was the scrumptious girl in uniform in slide 11 that did me in or possibly this:

Some of the re-enactors eschewed weapons altogether. Over at the press hut, a crew of “war correspondents” had set up a period darkroom, developing black-and-white photos shot with an array of old-school cameras, aiming for prints that looked like they’d fallen out of a 1944 time capsule.

And the dance. Of course.

Ahhhhh.

You know what's good? That I don't drive. Because if I drove? I'd _always_ be running around to things like this.

(also, it's a really nice article in that it both _gets_ why people do this stuff and the rather legitimate and murky issues that can and do surround it).

Comments

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Captain Jack goes to the WWII reenactment. Honestly, I think we need to make this happen sometime in the next five years.

I knew about events like this when I was in college but couldn't get friends interested enough to actually go and since I don't drive either there wasn't much I could do.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Dude, also cosplay costume resource HEAVEN.

Also! Did you see the list of events on the last page? Did you see:

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend (610-372-7333; www.maam.org/maamwwii.html) at Reading Regional Airport in Pennsylvania is June 5 to 7 and draws 20,000 people to its air show that features 1940s planes, several of which offer rides to the public.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe we could figure something out.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I am actively not putting anything else in my schedule that this point until Patty gets home because we both have a lot of travel this year, but, yes, we totally have to get on getting to stuff like this if not 2009, 2010.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I would go to that. I bet Martin would, too.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap! OMG. Oh, crap!
*whimper*

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Do you Lindy Hop?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Really badly. One of the "projects" for this summer, since we'll actually have Patty in town, is to do lots and lots of the outdoor dance stuff and hopefully fix that (couple dancing sort of stresses me out, absurdly, so it's waaaay easier for me to fix my skills dancing with her than pretty much any other humans).

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I'm NOT showing this to my husband. He'd drop everything for this, but only if he could be Patton. He has a riding crop on his desk and amuses people at work with impressions. (He does a pretty good Gunny Highway, too.)

Granted, he does command people, but not the Third Army.

[placate-me.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of the people that went to this reenactment, because many of them work on History and Discovery channel projects.

One friend, a fellow Brooklynite, was one of those photographers. He's normall the court photog for the Daily News and dresses 1940s every day.

There are a lot of WW2 reenactors in Gettysburg too--not too far of a trek for you two if Patty drives.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooh.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

Oooh, costumes and history! I used to do Ren Faire and I'm not sure why I haven't gotten into this yet.

The rather legitimate and murky issues

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Yes, I completely get that.
My paternal ancestors were, as far as I know, all Confederates, and *I* have issues about people dressing up in the costume of the Confederacy, to say nothing of the antebellum South.
But Civil War reenactments! Dixie!
My main issue would be with the people who maintain that there are no issues.

You know what's good? That I don't drive.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

You know what's also good? That you aren't independently wealthy.
Because you'd being doing that full time, and wouldn't write a line, and would never make it to auditions.
I am being completely selfish about this, I realise.

Re: You know what's good? That I don't drive.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I'm kidding. Mostly.

[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

Oh wow.

-- yeah, so, I showed this to my best friend whose kitchen table I'm sitting at and we had 'we need to do this' moments. Especially since we've been half-living in a historical 1940s AU we're writing for a month or so now. *laughs*

SUCH temptation, this.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a suburb of Reading, and the air show has always been a really big deal.

I can tell you that it's a fairly accessible area via buses, but I'm not sure how far that extends out of Reading and to the airport.

(Did you put any thought into whether or not you have use of those WWII gaiters? They're at the local Army surplus store for $8/pair in unusued grey-white and gently used army green.)

[lostin-thestars.livejournal.com]

Hubby and I both do civil war re-enacting... so much fun, so misunderstood.

We both portray Confederates because, well... the rules on that side are a bit more lax, not because we agree with slavery... and yet we always get branded "the bad guys" and "rascist jerks"


very frustrating,

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

This lot are the English Civil War re-enactors - http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/index.asp

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a big story arc on Coronation Street.
Things got tempery! There was shoving!

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

The Saturday night party at The Hub, back in October, was 30s/40s-themed. There had been very few men in the con, in the day time, then they practically all turned up at the party in full uniform, mostly RAF. The hall was done up as per CJH, with flags, and "Kiss the Boys goodbye" posters. Some of the girls were in uniform, too, or gorgeous dresses. We had a swing duo playing for us, as well, who were in RAF uniform.

It was so very fabulous :)

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Oh man, WWII *journalism* re-enactors? It's a good thing I can't get there either. (Although I would probably go for medics instead. Or spies, because I cannot freaking resist that stuff and because The Lady With The Limp is my personal fucking hero for spying on the Nazis despite having lost a leg. I would totally cosplay her. help...)

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh god. I can't see these things, rm. I cannot have more hobbies.

Also, if I played German, I'd have the urge to get all campy and Allo Allo about it, which is probably Not On^TM.

Related aside: I'm going to try and see this today at the film festival. (One of the advantages of volunteering at T/F is that you get into the Q line for free.) My first thought upon seeing the blurb was "Oh, I will have to mention this to rm."